burning at the stake

Noun

Meaning

execution by fire

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

burning crucifixion funeral pyre immolation martyrization

Hypernyms

execution death penalty capital punishment executing

Hyponyms

auto-da-fe

Examples

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science as they now do to burning at the stake in the name of religion. Henry Jacob Bigelow

Some scholars claim that Calvin and other ministers asked that he be beheaded instead of burnt, knowing that burning at the stake was the only legal recourse. Source: Internet

The following day he was sentenced to burning at the stake, the same sentence as in Vienne. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

burninate burnination burning burning bar burning boat burning bridge